The Seeker by Thricedotted The Seeker is a project by Thricedotted submitted to NanoGenMo, the yearly event of generating a…
The Seeker is a project by Thricedotted submitted to NanoGenMo, the yearly event of generating a novel with code. This submission is more than the generated novel, as Thricedotted hints, it is “at once an algorithm, an agent, a protagonist, a narrator.” The process parses text from WikiHow, deconstructing it and outputting written and visual ‘logs’ enriched with ASCII aesthetics. It operates in three modes Work, Scan, and Imagine. In Worksmode, it scrapes concepts about human activities. In Scan mode, it searches plain text “memories” from a seed concept encountered during Work. It then uses the concepts it didn’t recognize from Scan mode (censored out in its logs) to Imagine an “unvision” around the seed concept. The code and documentation is available on github.